[EvilConsumer]

As other have already suggested, Adblock Plus & NoScript are incredibly useful addons to Firefox to help prevent the eye cancer of ads, and the malware infections that can associate with them.

For anyone who wants to use Adblock, you can subscribe the to Easy List after you install it. Which makes things a lot easier for new users because it blocks just about everything, minus the occasional ad or banner.

NoScript on the other-hand is very overzealous. You have to allow every javascript manually for each site. It's definitely something for those who are paranoid about getting infections or who travel sites known to be infected with various hostile scripts and code (warez sites).

I've attached a NoScript Whitelist that I've been building since NoScript came out. It's not super exhaustive or anything, but it should be helpful for those who start off using NoScript. The first few weeks were a real PIA to whitelist everything, but once you're done adding the majority of your well visited sites, you'll only occasionally need to mess with it.

To import my list and settings, click on the NoScript icon on the bottom right of your browser --> Options --> Import --> Select Noscript - Whitelist.txt